Ha Tinh "launches" the goal of planting 8,600 hectares of concentrated forests

Localities in Ha Tinh are focusing on implementing the goal of planting 8,600 hectares of concentrated forests by 2024.

Workers of Huong Son Forestry and Services Company Limited plant production forests.

In the first days of the new year, localities in the mountainous district of Huong Son continued to maintain and promote the movement of "everyone plants trees, every household plants trees" to contribute to protecting the ecological environment, stabilizing livelihoods and increasing income for people. According to the plan, in addition to planting scattered trees in residential areas, during the Tet holiday, communes and towns in Huong Son planted about 39 hectares of concentrated forests (77,800 trees). This is considered the "start-up" stage for the 2024 forest development plan.

Mr. Le Ngoc Danh - Head of the Forest Protection Department of Huong Son district said: "The Department is coordinating to urge and direct localities, units and forest owners to soon complete the registration target for planting trees in early spring to create a premise for completing the forest development plan in 2024. We are also making efforts to manage well the issues related to forest development work to strive that by the end of the year, the whole district will plant 1,295 hectares of acacia and enrich the forest of 200 hectares with native tree species such as: lim, cong, de, do mo...".

Son Linh people (Huong Son) grow native trees to enrich the forest area assigned for protection.

Huong Khe is also one of the localities with the largest concentrated forest planting plan in the province this year. Right before the traditional Tet holiday, localities in the whole district have started to "start" planting trees and simultaneously launched the Tet tree planting campaign. Up to this point, the whole district has planted nearly 35 thousand trees of agarwood, acacia, star apple, dracontomelon, purple-flowered lagerstroemia, mango, etc.

Mr. Nguyen Manh Tai - Deputy Head of Huong Khe Forest Protection Department informed: "This year, the whole district will plant 1,250 hectares of concentrated forest, so from the beginning of the year, we have focused on inspecting and monitoring the process of forest planting, forest exploitation and guiding households assigned land and forest, especially those assigned natural forest to seriously carry out the work of protecting, zoning, promoting regeneration and enriching forests in accordance with regulations. We will also strengthen the management of projects related to forests and forestry land, conversion of forest use purposes, forestry models, scattered tree planting, forestry seed production in the area...".

People in Huong Long (Huong Khe) buy acacia seedlings to plant forests in the spring crop.

In 2024, the province plans to plant 8,600 hectares of concentrated forests, including 8,300 hectares of production forests and 300 hectares of protective and special-use forests (currently planted on about 20% of the total area). Thereby, striving to achieve a forest cover of over 52%, exploiting 588 thousand ^m3 of raw wood and aiming for many other important goals. Key forest planting areas are Ky Anh, Huong Khe, Huong Son, Vu Quang districts...

Forester Huong Minh (Vu Quang) is busy planting forests at the beginning of the year.

Head of the Ha Tinh Forest Protection Department Hoang Quoc Huan said: “We are focusing on overcoming difficulties and existing problems to improve the efficiency of forestry production, determined to cover the entire forest planting area according to the assigned plan. To proactively carry out the task, we have built groups of solutions on production direction and management, technical processes, infrastructure development for production, processing and consumption of products, State management...

In particular, we are strengthening the inspection and control of seed sources in conjunction with promoting the use of quality seeds among the people. The industry also strengthens the direction and guidance of seed production and supply units in the area to carry out production according to the correct process and supports and guides customers to implement and apply silvicultural technical measures on forest planting, forest care, forest protection and regeneration promotion to bring high efficiency in production. In addition, we also encourage the people and other forest owners to promote the application of intensive forest planting techniques, planting at the right density, choosing the right season, planting large timber forests to replace small timber forests...

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Source: https://baohatinh.vn/kinh-te/ha-tinh-khoi-dong-muc-tieu-trong-8-600-ha-rung-tap-trung/261947.htm